beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA (AC) (Japan)

It's great to have non-Konami artists, it's just the kind of songs made that are turning us off.
Konami artists (like Sota and LED) haven't been doing so hot as of late.

Radio PRIM does have its DDR video, you all can sleep peacefully tonight.

WOBBLE IMPACT I've now herd. It's not as bad as everyone says it is, it's just really forgetable. I think if this song came out as IIDX's debut dubstep song and not ZED, I think it would get a more possative reaction. Sotastep is alright but it's not worth the cost of losing Sota Trance.

Lucky Shuffle I've now herd too and it's awesome. Neko needs to do more jazzy stiff like this and POINT ZERO.

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I would like to have whatever USAO was smoking when he made Miracle 5ympho X.

The second half was a fucking mess.

Why isn't anyone talking about Funny Shuffle yet? That song is seriously my favorite in SPADA so far.

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I thought everyone was going to hate funny shuffle. Huh...

You kidding? It's not often that you hear Nekomata Master pull off something like that.

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Funny Shuffle is my favorite song from the default tracklist!

Oh, and with today Bemani Namahousou, we can say that the "red guy" (abdy) in Jakarta Funk Brothers is DJ Totto (it was never clearly said though...kind of like Super Star Mitsuru has nothing to do with TAG). The blue guy (Ed) is more or less confirmed to be Nekomata Master too.
That's 3 songs for Nekomata in the default tracklist! (not that I mind, all 3 are awesome)

Actually I think Nekomata has 4 songs:

Funny shuffle
Element of SPADA
INSOMNIA
and DARK LEGACY

Dunno if DARK LEGACY it's Nekomata alone or with someone else, but go hear it, it's clear that Nekomata it's involved on that song!

Also, a lot of people think that Expander it's Nekomata (that would be 5 songs on the default list), I completely disagree, but you never know, we'll have to wait...

And for the record, tricoro had also 3 Nekomata songs on the deffault list... and I think that all those are awesome!

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Yessss.

After listening to most of the songs (I think I'm just missing esrev:eR), I sorta like the default list, there are a lot of great songs (the 4 Nekomata songs, Adularia, Atropos, 牧神笛吹きて, Elektrick U-Phoria, 廿), but also a handful of songs that I don't care about (ALBA, Odin, both Yukacco songs, the Prim/Mayumi Morinaga songs).

Let's see if the unlock systems are better than tricoro's Yellow Phase...

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Am I the only one who likes Odin?

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I'll never get to play this game but I like the songs and the incredibly dark theme.

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Dunno if you saw it, but we are going to have the BGM from tricoro AND SPADA in the OST (or maybe as a bonus Disc for pre-order, dunno i don't know japanese):

http://www.konamistyle.jp/item/72382

PD: YES! Hi-SPEED TUTORIAL! Loved that song, saw the tutorial just for that xD!

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Nice to hear the OST is including that. IIDX has always had a good set of BGM's in their games. It's surprising they never did this before.

That aside, came across this lineout of Funny shuffle:

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SPADA OST cover revealed.

Bigger "SAMPLE" resolution. [500x500]

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So, if I am correct, doesen't 廿 sample angry german kid halfway threw for quite a bit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nQeMOpH3FY&list=UURYNXqSzHLi0xx5Lu5m6iJA
for reference.

...I don't particularly hear AGK but...

Anyway, today, much to the disappointment of a good number of player (myself included), there was no new event.
Lincle Kingdom started 2 weeks after Lincle started, Legend Cross 2-3 weeks after Tricoro's start (depending if you count the pre-release), and now, we reached the 3rd week for Spada.
And we got...the weekly ranking...m'kay...

Spada has a bit of a slow start so far if you add to it that there was no revival, and that the only unlocks are all the songs from Tricoro... (not having it unlocked by default is quite annoying tbh)

There's a good chance they might wait until the OST comes out before they do some kind of event.

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I certainly hope that all of my points that I accrued before thus far in SPADA benefits me when the unlock system starts.

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Did someone ask for a new EXTRA STAGE?

Currently known songs to unlock this song are Aurora, ANDROMEDA, and GOLDEN CROSS. Currently seems to be on Phase 1, which requires 33 total levels and FULL COMBOs on each song to unlock the ANOTHER chart. No other charts look to be available. I'll try and keep adding info as we get it.

EDIT: Here's the SECRET MUSIC UNLOCKED result screen.



Somehow that's not a KONMAI QUALITY typo; "Spada leggenda" translates roughly to "sword of legend", or just "sword legend".
Unless, of course, there's a "ry" hiding behind that player ranking... and there might be.

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